Humans will f' anything and apparently it's good for us.

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    huevonkiller Change (Deftones)

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    Aight. :O
     
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    Ancestors of Modern Humans Interbred With Extinct Hominins, Study Finds

    The ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and another extinct line of humans known as the Denisovans at least four times in the course of prehistory, according to an analysis of global genomes published Thursday in the journal Science.

    The interbreeding may have given modern humans genes that bolstered immunity to pathogens, the authors concluded.

    “This is yet another genetic nail in the coffin of our oversimplistic models of human evolution,” said Carles Lalueza-Fox, a research scientist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain, who was not involved in the study.

    The new study expands on a series of findings in recent years showing that the ancestors of modern humans once shared the planet with a surprising number of near relatives — lineages like the Neanderthals and Denisovans that became extinct tens of thousands of years ago.

    Before disappearing, however, they interbred with our forebears on at least several occasions. Today, we carry DNA from these encounters.

    The first clues to ancient interbreeding surfaced in 2010, when scientists discovered that some modern humans — mostly Europeans — carried DNA that matched material recovered from Neanderthal fossils.

    Later studies showed that the forebears of modern humans first encountered Neanderthals after expanding out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago.

    But the Neanderthals were not the only extinct humans that our own ancestors found. A finger bone discovered in a Siberian cave, called Denisova, yielded DNA from yet another group of humans.

    Research later indicated that all three groups — modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans — shared a common ancestor who lived roughly 600,000 years ago. And, perhaps no surprise, some ancestors of modern humans also interbred with Denisovans.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/neanderthals-interbred-with-humans-denisovans.html
     
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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    SPD has Sex
     
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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    I have 304 Neanderthal variants in my dna.
     
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    Did we really need another Chris Kaman thread?
     
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    HomerLovesKoolAid I have a well-known member.

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    To this day, I stand by this principle.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    that creeps me out enough without actually watching it. yikes.
     
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    That bitch told me she was on the pill. Hopefully someone eats her before i get stuck with child support
     
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    Can you imagine the mysterious and bizarre experiments they conducted on "anything". In that country subterfuge is an expected course. th russian badge.jpg
     
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    The lamb looks sort of like Popeye
     
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    I think it looks like Kreacher, the house elf from Harry Potter on the right

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